, lor
Jackson places blame in poultry plant fire
. pected to announce oon wheth r h will eek
the Democratic presidential nomination, po e
to the crowd for 20 minutes in � ceremony that
too on a religious fervor.
h poke, a tencb eman ted from Im­
perial Food Product, where workers bad
prepared chicken nuggets and marinated chick­
en breasts for restaurants and grocery stores for
11 years.
Mo t of tho e in th crowd were Black, but
ASSOCIATED' SS WRITER
HAMLET, .C - Th Rev. 1 c on
The yon th tep of a poultry plant where 2S
people died I t wee and blamed an uncaring
government and industry for th tal fire.
"Th people were denied their right to live
beca of governmental neglect, of
elfi hn ,beca of greed," 1 on told
everal hundred people ho thered in nt of
Imperial Food Products.
Jackson, a civil righ clivi t who i ex-
everal were white.
Group
TERRY KELLY
,
raged through
thi building, it did not
epar te white from
Blac or men from
female," Jac n ld,
"Th people- ould
not h ve been killed if
the la had been
upheld."
As be po e, membe of
plauded and houted u� ."
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At
11 In fi tal d' trict court in Orand
t ,Jud obert Holm Bell
panted DSS one week to file mo­
tio or answers to the NISE uit.
NISH i a non-profit, non-partisan
community organization.
A TEEN AND B R' CANDY - Kalllab WII 0 , a J
Mackenzie HII School lGr the p t two yea a. been elllDI
caDdy at ew StarUgh Bapti t C rc eacb SODday. WlI OD,
w 0 I. a ember of New Starllgbt, said he Db to become a
pharmad t. (pboto It;, N. Scott)
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DETROIT (AP) -Oarence
Thomas is not the person to repre ent
Blacks on the U.S. Supreme Court,
le ders of Michigan organizations
for Black lawyers said in opposing
Thomas' nomination.
"His view, whatever they are,
will ultimately be perceived as tho e
of Black America," Camille
Stearns-Miller, president of the Wol­
verine Bar As ociation, said Tues-
Redi tricting: Minorities can
act to keep their voting clout
'00 you want to be
hanged by a low tree
or a high tree?'
�ByRON IGEL
is alway a danger."
Corr!PoeI!'"
, HE STATES IT is necessary for mlnortnes jo
DETROIT-The government is changing U.S. con- participate in the redi tricting process: "watch it and
gressional, state, and county districts to reflect chan- be involved in it."
ges in the U.S. population detennined by the 1990 Cockrell id the redistricting will have "an impact
U.S. Census. on rip" determine "woo you vote for in next
In U.S. history, there have been ny where 10 ."
politicia ha drawn di tri to benefit themselves He ddcd 0 tbe red tricting I completed.
or their party, nd to weaken the influence of citize people will not have a chance to change the situation
?P�ed to them, a proee known as "gerrymander- for another 10 years.
mg. . . "Know who' doing it," he said. "Let politicians
In o�e cas�. civtl nghts groups h�ve co'!lplained ' know the. people are concerned about the way this is
that white poltncians �ve used this'redlstricting done and urge them not to discount minority inter­
proee to weaken the voting strength of Black people ests"
and other minorities. . One tool at hand is an amendment placed in the
Ken Cockrell, Jr. o� the Wayne State Uniw:rslty Voting Rights Act nearly 10 years 0 in 1982. The
center for Urban Planmng s1.lJIes that today, "This '
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day. "That' a perception that's not
true. "
TIle Senate opened confirmation
hearings Tue day for Thoma,
. nominated by Bush to replace retired
Justice Thurgood Marshall.
At a news conference to oppose
the nomination, the groups called
Thomas' conservative political
view opportunistic. ..
"This is a person who has taken
advantage of the ystem, yet turns
around and tell you the system
doesn't work, , • aid Edgar Dew, co-
TIle memo b voter regi tration
activity in DSS offi . This i a
denial of "plaintiffs' and potential
voters' First Amendment righ ," the
law uit contends. The DSS b n also
co titut a violation of the Four­
teenth Amendment, the Equ 1
Pro ction Cia d . civil righ ,
t ult alleges.
THE DSS memo tates, "Voter
registration can be achieved at a
Secretary of State office t the time
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chairman 0'( the Michigan Branch of
the National Conference of Black
Lawyers.
"It' actearopportunistic move"
to impress the Bush dministration,
Dew aid.
Thomas probabl y w able to t':
tend Yale and be succ sful because
of Affirmative Action and civil
rights struggle of the 1960s, yet he
recently has taken a conservative
stand on many i sues, Dew, and
others complained.
Dew, Stearns-Miller, Charles
Brown, National Lawyers Guild
Detroit Chapter tee ring committee
member, and Ray Plowden of the
office of Rep. John Conyers, D­
Mich., attended the new con­
ference.
Thoma . would be the econd
Black .ever on the high court. afttr
Marshall, but Dew, Brown and
Stearns-Miller aid they aw no ad­
vantage for Blac in having uch a
conservative Black on the court.
"It's like being a ked, 'Do you
'ant to be hanged by a low tree or a
high tree?" Dew said. "I'd rather
notbe hanged at all."
crowd p-
{rM�mr�T: it to
the tree can be dangero .
e in point! On TbUJ'lday,
September 5 at approximately
. 7:15 p.m., three members
from the Southw t chapter of
ACORN (AI ociation of
Community for
eform ow) ·physlcal-
ly manhandled" by a pe n
ACORN ide lifted Ken-
neth AI of Almas R ty
they nempted to meet with
him, whom they call: "(A)
lum landlord ... ·
ACORN visible, ctive,
community action group.
There re ACORN chapters In
atlcast 21 ta and in Detroit,
through non-violent
demonstrations and negoli -
tio ,they are fOrcing a en­
ci nd individ to comply
with the letter of the I w.
AIm Realty, allegedly'
owned by Kenneth Almas or
the "Almas Estate." lCCOldin
to • May 31 article in the
Detroit Free P , 0 the
city of Detroit about
"$280.501 in property tax on
131 properties."
According to ACORN, II
attemp to meet with Kenneth
AIm to discuss his "slum
landlord" tendencies, were nil.
And after "two ref , " p­
proximately 12 members �f
ACORN attempt�d to meet
with Almas at 19650 Villa
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